Ellsworth, IL
How exposed is Ellsworth to wildfire?
Ellsworth's 184 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ellsworth at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.8% of Ellsworth's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Ellsworth compares
Ellsworth scores 2nd nationally and 13th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ellsworth ranks 30,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,249 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ellsworth
Ellsworth's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 97.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ellsworth gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ellsworth's 30,974-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ellsworth, see the exposure-zones guide.